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From: Wendy R. Mullin
Date: Jul 8, 2003 1:49PM

Hi -

On our home page - http://www.sc.edu/ - we rotate an image every five
minutes from a database of images.

However, we do not force a refresh. For example, if someone has their
browser pointed to www.sc.edu for more than five minutes, we do not force
the refresh on them. They have to either click the refresh button to see
the new image or leave the page and return to it again.

It has been strongly suggested by some members of our Web team that we
should rotate the image "every few seconds" while someone is on our home
page, so that visitors can see a "representative selection" of photos of
our University.

I've always thought that forcing a refresh without the user's knowledge or
consent would be inaccessible. However, I find that now that I am
presented with this situation, I can't remember on what information I've
based this assumption.

* Is forcing a page refresh inaccessible?
* Does anybody out there have an automatically refreshing page? If so, are
there any pluses or minuses associated with this other than accessibility?

I'd appreciate any comments or opinions.

Thanks.


Wendy R. Mullin
Web Developer, University of South Carolina
1244 Blossom Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
voice: 803-777-6785 | fax: 803-777-4149
<EMAIL REMOVED> | http://isg.csd.sc.edu/~wmullin/


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